So it’s a relief to see that Tapbots’ Tweetbot — my Twitter client of choice for iPhone and iPad — is not only still with us, but getting better.

What’s new in the Tweetbot updates for iPhone and iPad released today are features which make them a better way to peruse photos and videos folks share on Twitter. A new view, available for both your timeline and @replies, shows only tweets which include an image or a video, and shows them in a big, beautiful format. It makes Twitter feel a little bit like Pinterest, without making it into an unimaginative Pinterest knockoff.

In the standard timeline view and @replies list, photos and videos are shown as thumbnails. But if you tap on a tweet that includes an image or a clip, it expands to fill much of the screen (or, in the case of YouTube and other videos that Tweetbot can’t show natively, gets embedded in a browser view within the app).

I’d like to see some additional tweaks: the media view only identifies the Twitter user who tweeted something with a tiny, unlabeled profile image, so it can be tough to tell who’s who. (You can tap to see a tweet in a more standard format.) And it would be nice if it were possible to see the timeline in a hybrid view — one that showed all tweets, but used Tweetbot’s new format for the ones with photos and videos.

Tweetbot is $2.99. The iPhone and iPad versions are separate apps, so that’s a total of $5.98 if you want to use the app on both platforms, as I do. Having bought both versions when they were released, I’ve spent something like a grand total of a penny a day to be a Tweetbot user — which, as far as I’m concerned, makes it a remarkable bargain.

So excited to check out this new update. Have been really happy with Tweetbot and am embarrassed to say that I just learned about it months ago. Such a nice user experience in comparison to Tweetdeck, the Twitter app and Hootsuite on the iPhone.